While visiting Emilia-Romagna, we spent two nights in Rimini at the duoMo hotel. I’ve stayed at a lot of interesting and wacky hotels in my life…but nothing tops the duoMo for the sheer coolness factor. Is this not the coolest front desk you have ever seen?! I felt like a geek taking pictures of it…but [...]
While attending TBU, I had a lovely surprise. I won one of the prizes from Austria Tourism — a night at the five-star Interalpen Hotel-Tyrol in Seefeld, Tirol! I brought my friend Pia as my guest and we got the luxury treatment, complete with a tour of the resort and a welcome reception with rose champagne. Our [...]
I love living in Boston, but I’m not a fan of the weather here: a six-month winter followed by two days of of spring, then an intense, all-too-brief summer, during which the city turns into a sweatbox. Then came the nonsummer of 2009, when it rained nearly every day in June and July. I had [...]
On this week’s round of Travelers’ Night In, the interactive Twitter discussion for avid travelers and travel lovers, we focused on hotels and hostels! As always, ten questions were asked, people responded while tagging their tweets #TNI, and learned quite a bit about some new destinations! Here are the questions from this week: Q1. Do [...]
Sure, it’s fair to say that my life is consumed by wanderlust. But what about the opposite of wanderlust? What about the places that revolt you to your core? Here are the five places where I will never, ever travel. Just thinking about them makes me shudder! Komodo Island Image: airflore This Indonesian island is [...]
A few years ago, two of my best college buds, James and Mike, called me up and asked if I felt like taking a road trip to Québec City that weekend. Did they even have to ask? One of the highlights of our trip was visiting the Québec Ice Hotel — L’Hôtel de Glace. The [...]
On this week’s round of Travelers’ Night In, the interactive Twitter discussion for avid travelers and travel lovers, focused on Europe! As always, ten questions were asked, people responded while tagging their tweets #TNI, and learned quite a bit about some new destinations! Here are the questions for the week: Q1. What is your favorite [...]
This week, I participated in Travelers’ Night In for the first time. This event is an online gathering of travel tweeters who discuss a number of travel topics from 3:30-5:00 PM EST on Thursdays. The event was started by the Go girls: @ZipSetRachel, @GoApril and @GoSaraBeth. This week’s event was hosted by two of my [...]
